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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Caenorhabditis elegans
SUBMITTER: Rene Ketting
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-20558 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
PLoS genetics 20100408 4
RNA interference (RNAi) is a post-transcriptional silencing process, triggered by double-stranded RNA (dsRNA), leading to the destabilization of homologous mRNAs. A distinction has been made between endogenous RNAi-related pathways and the exogenous RNAi pathway, the latter being essential for the experimental use of RNAi. Previous studies have shown that, in Caenorhabditis elegans, a complex containing the enzymes Dicer and the Argonaute RDE-1 process dsRNA. Dicer is responsible for cleaving ds ...[more]